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Clutch by Oz Pearlman (DVD)Simple. Powerful. Easy to perform. A high-stakes card routine straight from Oz's show. Plays as big for 2 or 3 people as it does for two or three hundred!

Clutch is featured in Oz Pearlman's off-broadway show, The Unseen. While Clutch is simple to perform and can be done any time with a borrowed deck, it is presented here with the professional performer in mind. This is a card routine that bridges the gap between close-up and stage as it plays for the entire audience. We hope you'll add Clutch to your show.

The deck is borrowed. Fair.

The spectator shuffles, picks a card, and returns it to the deck. Fair.

You show your hands COMPLETELY empty. You show them slowly and from all angles. Your sleeves are rolled up. Fair. Fair. Fair.

You explain exactly what you're gonna do. This is as fair as it gets!

You reach into the spectator's pocket and INSTANTLY pull out the chosen card. Your hand darts in at lightning speed and BOOM, a card appears at your finger tips. This happens in the blink of an eye... literally less than a second!

You ask the spectator to check the box of cards. The box is still closed!

Teaching: Standard Oz Pearlman teaching, Oz goes over the entire routine and explains the TWO moves
you will use for this trick. 10/10

Quality of materials(if it is a gimmik etc): No gimmicks
needed this can be used with your deck or even a borrowed deck.

Difficulty: Requiring no
sleights (with the exception of two moves that barely qualify) Clutch is simplicity at its best.
8/10

Applications: Perfect for restaurant magic and strolling/walkaround magic. This could
also be used for a stand-up or even a stage show. As Oz says in the DVD rarely do you get a card
trick that you can do for Hundreds of people.

Overall Rating: Clutch is by far one of the
cleverest tricks I have seen Oz do and I would easily recommend it. 9/10

Literally, you can take anyone's deck and perform
completely surrounded,confidently, and easily.

The mechanics are pretty much nothing, at
least compared to most magic tricks. There is one sleight, but it's incredibly easy, and it barely
counts as a sleight anyways. 95% of the entire trick happens in their hands.

Bless Penguin and Oz for putting a full performance in the promo video above; it takes guts because
the method seems incredibly obvious. I've been doing card magic for less than a year and I knew
these principles, and could have done Clutch (from a mechanical standpoint) months ago. Consider the
cost of the product tuition for a lesson in how effective magic has more to do with creativity and
presentation than tricky moves.

There's no need to review the trick because you can watch
it performed in full yourself, right above. If you can manage basic card handling, you can do this.

Oz offers some tips including audience management during the primary "move," but I would
have liked to see more time spent on other presentation ideas and philosophy. I'm afraid that the
trick is so easy that it leaves the door open to poor presentation of what should be a miracle.
Perhaps I've been spoiled by Aaron Fisher's DVDs, or Nobledaza's S.W.C.T., where some of the best
stuff on the disc wasn't directly teaching the advertised trick(s).

Once again oz a great trick!!!!!!!!!! This is a great trick, It will leave your audiences Stunned
when the see you pull their own card out of a closed box!!!!!! I think this is great all you need
to perform is a deck of cards. Fun to perform and you are left clean!!!

It is amazing that something so simple to perform packs such a big punch. Great reactions as it
looks like a near impossible feat and you are totally clean wioth no angles to worry about.
Great work - wish I had thought of it myself.

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on June 28th, 2011

Heh, heh... I walked up to the table and one of my specs was a casino card dealer. So I performed
the effect and had her shuffle the cards. (Wonderful how well they can do that.) Either way blew
them out of the water. The waitress came up later and handed me the comment card from the table
which read:"The magician uses a marked deck, and the gravy is canned". That's-how-good-clutch-is! I
fooled a casino dealer. I highly recommend Clutch.

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on May 31st, 2013

Haven't performed it yet, but it fooled me (I've been a hobbiest for more than 40 years) and I am
confident it will fool and entertain lay folks. Easy to do. Oz offers some excellent patter. Glad I
bought it. Looking forward to doing it.